Kawabe Shozo seemed to feel that it was not enough to have a garrison mixed with the 11th Brigade, so he thought about it and continued, "Also, in order to completely defeat China's Second Theater of Operations, I propose to increase the air strike force, and at the same time send the Second Army to Shanxi. 35xs”

"Deputy Chief of Staff, I haven't thought about what you're talking about. It's just that the troops sent to Shanxi by the front army have already exceeded the budget, and if the second army is transferred to Shanxi, then Hebei, Henan, and Shandong will also have a shortage of troops! ”

Terauchi Shouichi couldn't help frowning when he heard this, as he said, the troops transferred to Shanxi had far exceeded his budget.

Originally, in his budget, only one First Army was needed, which was enough to level Shanxi, and even the entire northwest.

After all, their Imperial Japanese Army only dispatched 500 people, and easily took the entire Northeast without even encountering a little resistance.

In his eyes, the squadron has become synonymous with weakness!

There is such a precedent, and Terauchi Shouichi even thinks that dispatching the first army is already regarded as looking up to Shanxi and the second war zone.

In his opinion, as long as the Imperial Japanese Army went, the squadron would definitely bow down and surrender without a fight.

But the result was that the First Army did not even open the gate of Shanxi.

Following the ineffective operation of the First Army, the Fifth Division, which was dispatched, did indeed achieve inhuman results at the beginning, and the Chinese Second Theater was defeated one after another, and there was no power to fight back. Flash Dance

However, just as the battle of Xinkou was about to be taken, the guard battalion of the 358th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army suddenly came out of nowhere, raiding the rear line of the Fifth Division and cutting off the troop transport line and supply line of the Fifth Division.

and once again inflicted heavy losses on the First Army that rushed to support, and in the end even wiped it out, and even the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji, was martyred in the battle.

At the same time, the second theater of operations began a full-scale counterattack; The Fifth Division, which had no food and grass inside and no reinforcements outside, had to switch from offensive to defensive, if it were not for its own excellent combat effectiveness and the support of air force.

I'm afraid that it has already followed in the footsteps of the First Army.

This is not the end, now even the 14th Division that has just been sent up is trapped in Shanxi, and the most critical thing is that there is no hope of victory.

If the Second Army is transferred to Shanxi, it can be said that more than half of the troops of the Front Army will be transferred to this small Shanxi battlefield.

The total number of troops it invested is almost equal to the Songhu battlefield in the south!

And the reason for all this is because of one person

Yang Chen!

Formerly the commander of the guard battalion of the 358th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army, he was later promoted to the head of the Second Theater Guard Regiment, known as the first regiment in the world!

The honor and disgrace of the guard regiment are all based on the shame of the Imperial Japanese Army, and as soon as he thought of this, the anger in Terauchi Shouichi's heart rose slowly.

I hate to eat its flesh and drink its blood!

Because of the unfavorable battle in Xishan, he was ridiculed by the old guy Matsui Shigen, the commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army. 35xs

Even Tokyo already doesn't trust him a little.

"Now, the most important thing for us is to continue to gain the trust of Tokyo, and at the same time to regain the majesty and self-confidence of the Imperial Japanese Army!

And the prerequisite for all this is to take Shanxi, defeat China's second theater of operations, and kill or capture Yang Chen alive!

As for the wars in Hebei, Shandong, and Henan, we can slow down the pace a little first.

After taking Shanxi, and then waving the army to the east, are you still afraid that you won't be able to level it? ”

Deputy Chief of Staff Masao Kawabe explained.

"Hmm!"

Terauchi Shouichi nodded with a gloomy face and said, "So, then do what you want." ”

"Haya!"

Kawabe Shosanchong Temple Naijuichi saluted, and then went out to arrange.

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The picture pulls back to Xiaocang Mountain.

After a brief cleaning of the battlefield, Yang Chen led the soldiers of the guard regiment back to Zhaojiaji and joined the seriously wounded who were repairing there.

Then he led them to retreat south, leaving only Xu Hailang and dozens of brothers from the reconnaissance battalion to reconnoiter the enemy.

This puzzled the brothers of the guard regiment.

Tuanzuo Yang Chen didn't lead them to continue chasing and killing the little devils with the victorious army, why did they retreat backwards.

"What do you know? In our current state, it seems that morale is high, but in fact people are tired.

Coupled with the repeated vicious battles with the little devils in the past two days, the casualties of our army are not small, and the combat effectiveness is not as good as when we first arrived in Datong.

Now as a lone army, if you continue to venture deeper, once you encounter a large army of devils, then there is only a dead end.

Our mission was to block the southward advance of the Japanese 14th Division, and now that it has been determined that they are still in Datong and have not entered Xinkou, we can rest assured that we can rebuild the defensive line.

Therefore, the most important thing at this moment is to quickly join the big army! ”

listened to the explanation of adjutant Wang Gui.

The brothers of the guard finally understood.

……

The temporary headquarters of the 14th Division of the Japanese Army, Kenji Dohihara, the old devil, was even more annoyed after receiving the telegram from the front headquarters.

The headquarters seemed to be thinking about his 14th Division, but for him, who had always been conceited, it was more like a shame, a great shame.

It also strengthened his determination to kill Yang Chen!

Kawabe Shozo never dreamed that he originally wanted to protect the 14th Division, but it turned out that he miscalculated Kenji Dohihara's anger value, and almost pushed him into the bottomless abyss.

Of course, this is a later story, so we will not mention it for the time being.

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A day later, Yang Chen's headquarters finally converged with the large army in the southwest of Datong, the county seat of Yingxian.

At this time, the county seat of Yingxian County had already been ten rooms and nine empty, and the people inside had fled as early as when the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army came; Those who did not flee were also slaughtered by the little devils.

A heavy snowfall has dressed the whole land in silver, but it can't cover up the crimes committed by the little devils!

Yingxian, who was originally lifeless, was a little more angry again because of the arrival of the soldiers of the guard regiment.

After a short rest, under the order of Yang Chen, the soldiers of the guard regiment began to build fortifications relying on the county seat.

The county seat is not big, and the radius is only three or four miles.

Even Yang Chen stood at the east gate of the county and shot, and the luck was worth 9 Barrett sniper rifle bullets, and he could easily pass through the entire county and go straight to the west gate.

For this reason, Yang Chen specially pushed the fortifications to the north for five miles.

The reason why Yang Chen gave up other dangerous terrain and chose the isolated city of Yingxian County to fight a decisive battle with the enemy's 14th Division.

It was because he had just received a telegram, a telegram from the new regiment of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army.

After Li Yunlong transported the materials to a safe location, he returned to Datong.

At this moment, he has arrived in the northwest of Datong, and within two or three days, he can arrive in Yingxian County and join Yang Chen's guard regiment.

Time was urgent, and although the new regiment did not receive too strong reinforcements, it brought the 386 Brigade Independent Regiment.

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